Compressor



March 2, 1954 5, J. STEENSEN 2,670,895

COMPRESSOR Filed Nbv. 12, 1947 H 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 March 1954 5. J. STEENSEN 2,670,895

COMPRESSOR Filed Nov. 12, 1947 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Fig.2].

which is intended p hol around upon the the sickle shaped space being divided by sors have alread magnetic field is the compressor proper which the motor outside the compr this difiiculty t operating as two ma mate contact wi tacting line.

stator and rot stationary thin- The rotor may in th netic, and the stat of a magnetiza field may be formed by as an armature.

Patented Mar. 2, 1 954 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE This invention relates to a compressor or pump,

articularly for use with housed refrigerating cabinets, and whose rotor rolls stator excentrically to the latter,

The latter may then very well be an iron ring, which then operates However, greater forces are obtained if the exterior ring is a magnet, where- I by the compressor may work with a higher pres- 50 is made as a permanent magnet.

rolls upon the outside of the stator, also be of an ordinary magnetizable material if the stator I is made as a magnet. Rotor l and stator will now be pulled in engagement with separates the rotor and 55 one another by the magnet field. As no air gap.

sure.

a movable partition. Compresy been constructed, in which a used, enabling the encasing of walled nonmagnetic cylindrical housing concentric to the stator, and outside which the rotating magnetic field is arranged.

is case be permanently magor is either a magnet or is made ble material. The magnetic ings, it may be made particularly simple, as the pump housing, which COMPRESSOR Application November 12, 1947, Serial No. 785,364

Claims priority, application Norway November 12, 1946 1 Claim. (01. 230445) hermetically, and in surface of the rotor.

may nevertheless be arranged A modification comprises essor proper. of a ring, which is arranged In "such compressors diificulties have been experienced in connection w magnetic field, which is strong enough to overcome the necessary the magnet dimensio pared with the ot ciable precision work.

be surrounded by a, 30 an exterior housing being removed. Fig. 3 is longitudinal sectional view and Fig. 4 is a cros a ring shaped electroline 61 of Fig. 5.

interior of the stator and wh ith the building up of a upon its interior cylindrical motor driven roller, which ro air gaps, and owing thereto to the said cylindrical wal ns were rather large as comher members of the compressor. These constructions do not re The object of the present invention is to avoid o a substantial degree. This is interior cylindrical surface 35 5 represents a third embodi gitudinal sectional view on the bro In Fig. 1, reference 11 rotor magnet during its own rotation. There- 0 tionary stator either magnet. Numeral 2 designates a wing or nonthe travelling magnet outside the housing, may be dispensed with, and a1 proper may be dispense will then be such, that t between both of them 5 ring, surrounds the stat contact with the stato driven roll, which rota stator in contact with so the travelling magnet d with. The execution he rotor in the form of a or and is caused to roll in r by means of a motor tes concentrically to the the exterior cylindrical a rotor, in the form excentrically in the ich is caused to roll wall by means of a tates concentrically l in contact with the of the rotor.

quire any appre- An efficiency of up to approximately 100% may be obtained in connecaccomplished by the rotor and stator being or tion with the pressures, which are required in a gnetic bodies in direct intith each other at a rotating con- The magnetic force between the or has therefore been increased. or is executed in such a manner in the accompanying drawing Figs. 1 and 2 of the slide at 3, grooves are formed in order to overcome, and as t rotor pass gases over to the pressure side, as long as the rotor lies withdrawn from the stator.

The rotor and may 3 is present in the contacting line, a forcible pull is obtained here radially, but the rotor may be made easily to roll around the stator i by being turned around from outside, for instance, by means of a crank pin. Outside the rotor 5 a sleeve 6 of non-magnetizable material is ar ranged, which completes the compressor on the outside. Between the rotor 5 and its sleeve 6 there is just a space large enough to enable the.

rotor to move during its rolling against the stator.

Outside the sleeve 6 travels amagnet l eccentrically mounted with respect to the stator, or

the member 1 may be an iron ring such as a.

magnet, if the rotor 5 proper is a magnet. This magnet I is attached to a shaft 8; (Fig. 2): and has ringshaped pole shoes 9 and 10. It attracts the rotor 5 during its rotation, without, however pulling the rotor 5 around with it.

In Fig. 2, H and I2 show permanent magnet steel rings l3, M, supporting rings for the pole shoes, whereas and it are ring shaped pole shoes for the-magnetic ring H.

I-he end pieces 11 and i8 ofthe stator l are of nonmagnetic steel. By means of the disk I9, the ring magnet l is fixedly connected with shaft 8 on the motor 9.

In Figs. 3 and 4, numeral l denotes a stator with the same sliding partition 2 as shown in Fig. 2, the rotor being composed ofthe members l5, H and [6. The rotor is inserted between the end walls 11, I8 that is behind l8, which is of non-- magnetic iron. For the rest the compressor is open to the outside. The end wall 11, together with stator l and the end wall I8, is screwed fast to the base 20, which has inlet 4a and outlet 4b from the compressor. To the base a container 2| is welded. The compressor proper is now encased inthe space, which is limited by the base 26) and the wall of the container 2!. The outlet from the pump passes through the channel 41) out intothis space and from there through the outlet 22 out of same. The end wallis integral with the bolt 23, which serves for the suspension of the motor.

To the motorshaft 24, which is hollow, is attached the arm 25 with pin 26- and drivingroll- 21.

As it will be seen, the roll 25- will, when the motor rotates, press the rotor inwards against the stator, so that the contacting line travels around the stator circumference, these two members being pulled against one another by the magnet field. The arm 25, which carries the roll 21, is balanced by a counterweight 23; The rotor surfaces are supplied with lubricant and oil for tightening from the oil in the bottomof container 2!, and the motor obtains its lubrication from oil vapour surrounding same.

In Figs. 5 and 6 a construction is shown with the motor encased in the air or gas space 29' and with the rotor 30 arranged inside the encased compressor housing 3|.

Here the dimensions of the compressor prope are smaller for the same pump volume, and the compressor proper is shown diagrammatically with rotor 30 and stator 32, both of which or one of which may be magnets constructed in a similar manner as, mentioned above. The slide 33-, 34 follows the motion of" the rotor 38 automatically, as it always engages the rotor wall.

Numeral 36 designates a roll which drives the rotor 30 against the stator 32, and 4a, 4b are the suction and pressure channels in the stator.

The slide is. divided into two parts, 33 and 34, and is coupled together by the connecting member 35,, so. that it follows the motions of the rotor 30. The operation is otherwise the same as. in the: embodiment shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

The arrangement of the slide may of course be made in. other manners without thereby modifying the character of the invention.

I claim:

A compressor; comprising a statorhaving an interior cylindrical surface, a rotor in the forms of a ring within said stator, said: stator and said: rotor both being magnetized all around-their-co-- operating surfaces andat least one of them being a permanent magnet, said rotor being arranged eccentrically in the interior of the stator so as to be in forcible magnetic contact therewith in all operating positions and to leave inall' such positions a crescent-shaped space between itand the stator, a movable partition dividing the said space into a suction and a pressure space, fluid inlet and fluid outlet ports on opposite sides of the partition for passing fluid into the suction space and compressed fluid" out from the compression space, a roller arranged eccentrically in the interior of the rotor ring in contact with an axially directed line of its interior cylindrical. surface, means for rotating the roller axis, mechanically about the axis of the stators cylindrical surface, so. as to cause the. rotor to roll inside the, statorv in the said magnetic contact. along, an axially directed line on the. last-men.- tioned cylinder surface.

SV'ERRE J OHAN STEENSE'N.

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